Virtualiron allows small organizations to focus on their core business, not on managing Information Technology (IT). It helps businesses become more productive, deliver easy access to applications from anywhere on any device, protect critical data, and provide an easy path to cloud integration.

IRON Virtualiron family of next-generation intelligent appliances, powered by Windows Hyper-V clustering, Hyper-V network virtualization, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 technologies deliver on the promise to simplify, unify and improve business efficiencies. Its offers unique industry-leading, enterprise grade cluster-in-box hardware design which includes redundant hot-swap hardware configurations for motherboards, disks, fans and disks. It is a highly scalable, single device that can run 10s of VMs and provide storage scalability in the excess of 100TB; multiple devices can be combined to offer an enterprise grade scale-out infrastructure solution.

It offers an affordable all-inclusive highly scalable infrastructure solution that can be used as a primary storage, server virtualization, VDI, and both a local and remote network access security device.

It helps control access to applications easily; users can access their application and information from almost anywhere using virtually any device.

It runs business critical applications and databases; easily protect, centralize, organize, and reduces the risk of data being stored or potentially lost on unprotected devices.

IRON Virtualiron benefits Small to Mid-Size Businesses

IRON Virtualiron is custom designed for easy deployment, helps runs business applications on-premises and can be managed by individuals centrally with limited in-house IT services. It provides seamless integration to a growing number of cloud-based applications and services such as Windows Azure Backups, for an additional layer of data protection and Office 365 for email and collaboration services.

IRON Virtualiron for Branch Offices deployments

Virtualiron IT-Cluster-in-box is an integrated platform solution to help simplify delivery of services to branch offices. It offers the distributed enterprise and easy-to-manage, security-enhanced, high performance infrastructure that delivers cost-effective IT services across the WAN and corporate data centers. It helps to:

Unified Windows Server Solution: Manage entire IT infrastructure in one Box, Run applications on-premise, in cloud or hybrid

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 running on Virtualiron hardware appliance platform provides small-mid size businesses and branch offices with everything for managing an entire IT infrastructure in one box. It provides greater flexibility for customers to choose on premises or cloud-based solutions, migrate from one to the other, or provide a hybrid solution using simple administration which does not requiring a large IT department.

Key Windows Server Software Components

Hyper-V Server Virtualization:

Enterprise-class scale and performance help transform IT into an elastic, always-on cloud solution:

IRON Virtualiron Cluster-in-Box Unified infrastructure appliances are purpose-built, high performance hardware devices integrated with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 software technologies and IRON designed Oneface system hardware management tools. It significantly reduces the cost of compute and storage by offering resilience and performance similar to expensive Tier-1 solutions by taking advantage of industry-standard hardware. It offers capabilities such as high reliability, availability, scalability, and performance traditionally seen only in enterprise datacenter deployments due to their high value to customers of all sizes.

Non-Stop N+1 Hardware Resiliency: Resiliency is built into the design at multiple levels to deal with hardware and software failures to help prevent network, storage and compute downtime, both planned and unplanned.

Purpose-built Product SKUs: The right selections of hardware components provide a balance between performance goals and cost. Multiple SKUs options available with balanced compute CPU, memory, network throughput, and storage IOPS and capacity. It delivers cost reductions per transaction and per VM while protecting mission-critical line-of-business applications, databases, VDI and Server Virtualization environments.

An Embedded Fail-Safe Appliance Remote Access & Recovery Management System (AARMS): Oneface/AARMS, designed by IRON is a DOM based embedded operating system boot environment built inside of each of the nodes; the appliance can boot into "maintenance mode" where the administrator has full BIOS-level "out-of-band" access to system hardware and windows software environments, even when the appliance operating system shutdown or powered off. It provides advance offline system management and maintenance of system hardware and Windows OS image.

N+1 Network Ports Connectivity

Dual Port 1GbE, 10GbE RJ45, 10GbE SFP+ and 40/56Gbe QSFP options

N+1 Redundant Components

High Quality, efficiency and MTBF power supplies and cooling fans

Fast, Flash OS Boot time

Flash SSD for Windows OS Software and Flash USB DOM for AARMS systems

IronClad Global Support Services

IRON goes beyond the traditional support model to keep network, compute and storage infrastructures operating at peak efficiency and performance with virtually no downtime. The combination of proactive monitoring, remote technical case management and troubleshooting, system software updates and parts replacement ensures smooth operations. IronClad support is available at three difference level, Standard, Professional and Enterprise.

Silver Pro Support: Ideal for customers who want basic level support with scalability if required, including unlimited Phone and Onsite repairs

Product Literature

Iron Networks is an OEM provider of software-defined converged network, compute & storage virtualization infrastructure platforms for cloud-optimized modern data centers. The IronPOD solutions are OpenStack, VMWare and Microsoft Fast-Track validated turnkey cloud and storage building blocks, built on industry standard commodity hardware, quick to deploy at large-scale and easy to distribute as a single low-cost rack level SKU. IronPOD enterprise level support services and systems are available via qualified partners globally to help enterprises efficiently build private cloud environments, and service providers build public cloud offerings.